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Firebase

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4.5
Market Presence: Multiexperience Development Platforms, Cloud Application Platforms (Transitioning to Cloud-Native Application Platforms)

Overview

Product Information on Firebase

Updated 13th October 2025

What is Firebase?

Firebase is a software that provides a set of tools and services for building, deploying, and managing mobile and web applications. It offers features such as realtime database, authentication, cloud storage, hosting, and analytics, enabling developers to synchronize data across devices, manage user identities, store files, deploy web assets, and monitor app performance. The software simplifies backend development by eliminating the need for server-side infrastructure and supports integration with other platforms. Firebase addresses business needs related to streamlined app development, data management, user authentication, and application analytics, helping organizations focus on frontend development while ensuring scalability and reliability.

Firebase Pricing

Firebase software uses a tiered pricing model that includes a free plan with limited usage and paid plans that are based on usage metrics such as database storage, data transfer, authentication requests, and cloud function invocations. Pricing for paid usage is calculated monthly according to the amount of resources consumed, with charges varying by feature and region.

Overall experience with Firebase

SOFTWARE ENGINEER
50M - 250M USD, IT Services
FAVORABLE

“Wide Feature Selection Simplifies App Development but UI and Querying Limited”

5.0
Sep 5, 2025
I've been working with Firebase for a few years now and I'm really happy to say that it is one of the best services you can use to enrich your applications. It provides a solid "all in one" content management, with no-sql and realtime databases, messaging, cloud functions etc. You can integrate Firebase in no time and reduce your deployment times from apps that require a couple of micro services.
Architect
250M - 500M USD, IT Services
CRITICAL

“Struggles with Firebase: A Candid Look into its Limitations”

3.0
May 13, 2024
We had a not so positive experience with Firebase. It was the primary no SQL store for some of the real time front end apps we were building and the struggle with maintaining and scaling Firebase added a lot of overhead.

About Company

Company Description

Updated 25th July 2024

Googlers is a company that creates products intended to create opportunities for an extensive audience, regardless of their location across the globe. The company values diverse perspectives, imaginations and non-conformity to predefined norms and impossibilities. The goal is to build products while incorporating uniqueness of each individual involved in this process, aiming to make their products accessible and useful to all.

Company Details

Updated 11th November 2024
Company type
Public
Year Founded
1998
Head office location
Mountain View, CA, United States
Annual Revenue
30B+ USD
Website
www.google.com

Key Insights

A Snapshot of What Matters - Based on Validated User Reviews

Reviewer Insights for: Firebase
Deciding Factors: Firebase Vs. Market Average
Performance of Firebase Across Market Features

Firebase Likes & Dislikes

Like

The amount of features it provides, being it: - Databases (NO-SQL and Realtime) - Messaging - Analytics The list goes one, but these 3 together made Firebase being the first option to pick for my Flutter apps.

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Like

- Ability to use Google cloud functions as a way to respond to requests from Firebase and not having to build full blown back end services - User management and authentication capabilities offered by Firebase were world class and supported a number of different options

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Like

I like that the pay can be based on use, rather then per month

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Dislike

One of the issues is the management of the No-SQL DB, it provides a simple UI but for more complex queries it is just not possible to do through it. The other issue is the increased cost for the number of calls of a specific service, it can be cheaper. Last but not least, some of the menus in the UI of the console are a bit cluttered, but that has been worked in the last years so I believe they are on the good path for making it better.

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Dislike

- The querying capability was limited at best and a lot of logic was required on the client side to construct the data relationships that were needed. - We needed a pretty robust DevOps crew to manage the administration and scaling that is involved with Firebase. This added quite a bit of cost overhead to running this in our org.

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Dislike

So many ad on's that can make your product scalable as you need it. Rather then paying for things you don't need at the beginning.

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Peer Discussions

Firebase Reviews and Ratings

4.5

(360 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

5 Star
49%
4 Star
48%
3 Star
3%
2 Star
0%
1 Star
0%
Why ratings and reviews count differ?

Customer Experience

Evaluation & Contracting

4.5

Integration & Deployment

4.6

Service & Support

4.5

Product Capabilities

4.6

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  • SOFTWARE ENGINEER
    50M-1B USD
    IT Services
    Review Source

    Wide Feature Selection Simplifies App Development but UI and Querying Limited

    5.0
    Sep 5, 2025
    I've been working with Firebase for a few years now and I'm really happy to say that it is one of the best services you can use to enrich your applications. It provides a solid "all in one" content management, with no-sql and realtime databases, messaging, cloud functions etc. You can integrate Firebase in no time and reduce your deployment times from apps that require a couple of micro services.
  • Content Specialist
    <50M USD
    Miscellaneous
    Review Source

    Extensive Add-Ons Enable Scalable Solutions Tailored to Project Needs

    4.0
    Jul 8, 2025
    After working in an ai based platform to create an app i needed a more robust secure option, firebase was an easy next step in my learning alongside ai.
  • SOFTWARE DEVELOPER
    <50M USD
    IT Services
    Review Source

    Firebase Streamlines User Management But Presents Uncertain Expense For Large Projects

    4.0
    Nov 14, 2025
    Firebase drastically simplifies complex tasks like authentication and push notifications, but the platform's pricing and model can be difficult to forecast and expensive at high scale.
  • CHIEF OPERATION OFFICER
    <50M USD
    IT Services
    Review Source

    Comprehensive Documentation Supports Scalable Backend with Seamless Analytics Integration

    5.0
    Sep 1, 2025
    Fast setup, scalable backend, great docs, analytics. 10/10
  • Senior Software Engineer
    1B-10B USD
    IT Services
    Review Source

    Effortless Database Management and Crash Analysis in Real-Time

    5.0
    Jun 3, 2025
    It has made it easy to build, create, database manage, monitor and analyze crash reports.
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